Educational Survey: Writing Comfort and Preferences

[ParkerBrothers]

Hi everyone,

 

I’ve been in the fountain pen hobby for over 5 years and enjoy looking at things through the lens of data. About a year ago I shared an analysis looking at how to think about companies based solely on the products the offer.

 

As a follow up I’m running a brief, anonymous survey (~10 minutes) on writing comfort and preferences. The goal is to explore how hand/writing size, grip, and personal preferences affect comfort when writing.

 

If you’d like to participate, the survey link is here: 

 

https://apate.shinyapps.io/writing-comfort-survey/?source=fpn

 

This is for educational purposes only and once the survey and analysis are complete, I’ll share the results back with the community.

 

Thanks so much to anyone who takes part, I hope it’s interesting and useful for fellow enthusiasts!

[ParkerBrothers]

Also for those interested more in the past analysis I have this write up you can read through!

Writing Instrument Segementation.pdf

[Misfit]

I took the survey. Instead of trying to scroll through the pens, start typing the pen maker. It does prompt this, but I didn’t notice that at first. 

[zmija]

Done  

[ParkerBrothers]

9 hours ago, Misfit said:

I took the survey. Instead of trying to scroll through the pens, start typing the pen maker. It does prompt this, but I didn’t notice that at first. 

Thanks for your participation! Appreciate the feedback, I’ll try and update so that feature is more prominently highlighted 🙂

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Done, not sure about last question but answered it as fairly as I could

[ajcoleman]

This will be interesting. It prompted me to think about my most comfortable and least comfortable pens. The worst pen I ever used was this really sharp looking metal Lamy Twin pen with a ballpoint and stylus I used on my Palm Pilot back in the day. It took a while for me to realize how much it made my index finger hurt. It was too heavy and I had to press too hard with it. The worst. The most comfortable writing instrument ever may be the Pentel Kerry pencil. It seems perfect in every way. A Parker 51 is also very nice.  

[ParkerBrothers]

1 hour ago, ajcoleman said:

This will be interesting. It prompted me to think about my most comfortable and least comfortable pens. The worst pen I ever used was this really sharp looking metal Lamy Twin pen with a ballpoint and stylus I used on my Palm Pilot back in the day. It took a while for me to realize how much it made my index finger hurt. It was too heavy and I had to press too hard with it. The worst. The most comfortable writing instrument ever may be the Pentel Kerry pencil. It seems perfect in every way. A Parker 51 is also very nice.  

Interesting! I’ve never used the pen/stylus combo but I imagine something trying to do both would not be a great solution for either. The Parker 51 does feel great and works well for me.